After impressive efficiency, Congress has its task cut out

By profitable 18 out of the 25 seats it had contested within the Assembly election, a 72% conversion charge, the Congress has ended up because the celebration with the very best strike charge. The strike charge of its senior associate DMK was 70.75%.

The Congress can really feel inspired from this victory because it was blamed for a poor strike charge previously elections, however the highway forward is lengthy. There is a sense in sections of the celebration that it can not stay a junior associate ceaselessly, when even the BJP is aggressively pushing for enlargement in Tamil Nadu.

In 2006, when the Congress gained 34 out of 48 seats, it didn’t capitalise on its efficiency to assist develop the organisation. For all of the discuss of ‘bringing back Kamaraj rule’ in Tamil Nadu, the factionalism and infighting has dented its prospects through the years.

Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K.S. Alagiri has managed to quell factionalism to an extent. Even when a number of leaders protested in opposition to the nomination of some candidates, they had been rapidly requested to fall in line by Mr. Alagiri and senior leaders, together with AICC in-charge of Tamil Nadu Dinesh Gundu Rao, who realised the enormity of the task at hand.

The agreements with the DMK for the previous elections and its personal efficiency deficit have meant that the Congress is unable to hunt a share in energy within the State. Even in 2006, when it gained 34 seats and the DMK 96 seats, the Congress sat out of the federal government. The late AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa used to taunt it as a “minority DMK government”.

The 2021 Assembly election outcomes current a chance to the nationwide celebration, which is combating for relevance in lots of States, to strengthen its base, construct its cadre and determine younger and gifted employees to allow it to have both a stronger bargaining energy or the power to struggle elections alone, however its alliance with the DMK on the nationwide degree.

“The people of Tamil Nadu have a liking for the Congress, and among all the national parties, the Congress is the most liked here. We have to build our grassroots, identify good leaders. These results have helped us take forward the task of building our party at the ground level. But we have to fight the fascist force. That is our main priority,” Mr. Dinesh Gundu Rao advised The Puucho.

Another senior chief mentioned that whereas this victory was vital for the Congress, it could not do something to upset the alliance, pointing out that the celebration must work laborious to develop its base within the State.

The reality stays that the Congress’s dream of bringing again the Kamaraj rule can not come true until the celebration is able to contest in all 234 seats within the State on its personal (it had contested in all 39 constituencies alone within the 2014 Lok Sabha election) or lead an alliance in Assembly elections, a prospect that appears distant in the meanwhile.